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>> Trish: Hey guys, welcome back to Sourcefed, I’m Trisha Hershberger.
If you are unhappy with your planet or simply curious about what lies beyond, that’s ok.
You can move to Mars!
Sure, your parents will miss you, but that’s cool.
You want to stay in touch, “there’s an app for that.”
At least that’s how Colorado native and Mars One finalist Max Fagin feels about it.
Max isn’t scared at all about moving to a new planet; it’s all he’s ever wanted
and he works towards it everyday.
As a little boy, he was fascinated by space and enjoyed building model rockets – totally
normal.
As a high school graduate, he helped design a giant sundial which is the tallest sundial
in the state – woah, that’s cool.
After that he obtained degrees in physics, astronomy, and mechanical engineering at NASA’s
microgravity university in Houston – alright, Max… and now, he’s 26 years old and working
on a grad degree in aerospace engineering at Purdue University.
That’s determination.
That’s real drive.
It’s a little crazy to me, but going to Mars isn’t my dream, it’s his!
And he’s going to do it, dang nab it!
Max would like to leave earth by the age of 35, less than ten years from now and thanks
to MarsOne, the non-profit organization planning to send four people to Mars by 2023, the dream
that he wishes may come true.
Now, Max would have to be selected, but he’s already in the top 700 applicants out of 200
thousand, and he should be!
But he’s not leaving all of his meteorites in one crater, no no, Max is also part of
Inspiration Mars, a group of grad students with an award winning plan to do a red planet
fly-by before 2018.
It’s mind-blowingly, potentially pants-droppingly awesome that Max’s dream could soon be a
possibility.
I mean, not that long ago, people would have never believed humans would be able to walk
on the moon, but that happened.
And now, living on Mars?
As much as some out there may look at Max Fagin and say “wow, what a nerd!”
we here at sourcefed salute you.
The best dreams always seem a little crazy at first, but that’s just cause no one has
done them yet.
So if you had the option to live on another planet forever, would you?
What would you do there?
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